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MAY 22, 2019

A new, academic study--conducted by UC San Diego and Google --has jumped into the world of "hacking for profit", running a study on hacking-for-hire services and their charges and success in hacking into a set of Google Gmail accounts. The study , published by UCSD, found that--for the most part-- most hacking services are scams.

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APRIL 21, 2017

The California Insitute of Technology (Caltech), the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and the University of San Diego (UCSD) have all ranked very highly on a new ranking of universities for their technology transfer efforts, issued by The Milken Insitute , the Santa Monica-based thinktank.

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MARCH 23, 2021

The San Diego Angel Conference, an angel investing effort which is run by the University of San Diego (USD) School of Business, says it has made investments in five companies at its conference this year, worth a total of $500,000.

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DECEMBER 22, 2014

A startup which is based on research conducted at the University of California, San Diego has scored $15M in a Series A funding. which was co-founded by Tom Driscoll, a former University of California at San Diego researcher. echodyne metamaterials spinout ucsd duke venture capital radar bill gates materials'

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MARCH 20, 2020

A group of scientists and physicians at UC San Diego Health and the UCSD School of Medicine has arranged a partnership with five diagnostics markers that it says will bring the health system’s capacity to test for coronavirus to as many as 1,500 tests daily sometime in early April.

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DECEMBER 4, 2015

Carlsbad-based satellite broadband provider ViaSat and the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) said this morning they are in a new partnership, which will stream high quality sport via ViaSat's Exede satellite network. The two said they will be live streaming events at UCSDTritons.TV , powered by ViaSat's network.

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APRIL 7, 2015

The University of California San Diego said today that it has received a commitment for a $100M donation, to benefit its business school, the Rady School of Management , from the Ernst Rady and the Rady Family Foundation. Rady had been behind the establishment of UCSD''s business school in 2004. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 28, 2016

Los Angeles-based HelloTech , the on-demand, in-home technical services company founded by serial entrepreneur and tech investor Richard Wolpert, said it is expanding into San Diego, and has begun offering up its services in the city. The company now offers up its services in Los Angeles, Orange County, and San Diego.

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JULY 11, 2021

USES APP TO HELP LGBTQ COMMUNITY UCSD Students Win Pitch Competition appeared first on Startup San Diego. The post WINNING CO.

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AUGUST 27, 2019

The University of California San Diego and engine and powertrain developer Cummins are in an effort to develop ways to reuse and repurpose electric vehicle batteries, Cummins said this morning. Cummins is aiming those "second-life" battery applications at such areas as grid energy storage applications.

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JUNE 4, 2010

SANYO Electric Group , which has its North American headquarters in San Diego, and the University of California, San Diego , said yesterday that they are in a research collaboration agreement focused on renewable energy. Tags: sanyo ucsd solar energy cleantech research university diego.

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APRIL 20, 2010

Agilent Technologies and the University of California, San Diego said Monday afternoon that the two have created a new, chip-scale micro- and nanophotonic-systems testing facility at UCSD. Agilent and UCSD did not say how much they would be investing in establishing the testing center.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

In a demonstration of the amount of activity in San Diego's biotech industry, two, separate companies announced new biotech laboratories opened up in San Diego Wednesday. Craig Venter Institute said they are opening up new R&D facilities in San Diego Wednesday. Both Isis Pharmaceuticals and the J.

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OCTOBER 2, 2019

San Diego-based MemComputing , a startup developing high performance computing (HPC) technology, has been selected by Chevron Technology Ventures (CTV), for CTV's Catalyst Program, which supports early stage companies focused on the oil and gas industry. MemComputing is led by CEO and co-founder John Beane. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 5, 2010

Carslbad-based Life Technologies , a developer of genomic analysis technology, and the University of California at San Diego 's Moores Cancer Center, said this morning that the two are collaborating on a research effort. Tags: life technologies ucsd genomics biotech lifescience.

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JULY 6, 2010

Amin Vahdat of the University of California, San Diego; Dr. John Bowers at the University of California, Santa Barbara; and Dr. Gerard Medioni and Dr. Alan E. Tags: ucsb ucsd research grant computer funding. Willner at the University of Southern California.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Tortuga Logic , a new startup focused on chip-level cybersecurity technology whose founders include professors from UC San Diego and UC Santa Barbara, has raised $2M in a seed funding, the company disclosed on Thursday. The seed funding came from Eclipse Ventures.

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JUNE 5, 2017

San Diego-based Comhear , a developer of immersive, 3D audio software, announced on Monday that it has raised $12M in a Series A funding. The company said its technology is based on research from the University of California San Diego (UCSD). Comhear develops audio enhancing software. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

San Diego-based MemComputing , a startup working on high performance computing technology, says it has been selected to join the Air Force Research Laboratory's Catalyst Space Accelerator , being held in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Beane, formerly an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at UCSD.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Search engine giant Google announced Tuesday that the firm is funding a number of University research projects, including a group of researchers at UC San Diego, a researcher at UC Santa Barbara, and a researcher in Los Angeles. Google said that the firm is awarding a total of $5.7M

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AUGUST 31, 2016

Roger Tsien, a UC San Diego scientist who shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in chemistry for research that led to the development of fluorescent proteins used to illuminate tissue and track biological processes, has died, according to a statement from the university. He compared himself to John C.

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JANUARY 7, 2013

A new, biotech startup focused on delivery of nucleic acid therapeutics, Solstice Biologics , said last week that it has licensed technology developed at UC San Diego, and received $18M in a Series A funding. and his colleagues at UC San Diego School of Medicine.

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MARCH 2, 2018

Amid intensifying global demand for workers who can extract insights from zettabytes of data, the University of California, San Diego held a dedication ceremony Friday for its new Halicio?lu The center, made possible by a $75 million gift from UC San Diego alumnus and early Facebook employee Taner Halicio?lu,

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NOVEMBER 24, 2014

San Diego-based Hush has nearly doubled its original, $100,000 goal on its Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign , with over $196,000 in commitments--and growing--for its smart earplug project. hush crowdfunding smart earplugs wearable mobile earplug device ucsd' The company has doubled its fundraising in less than a week.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Students and shoppers will soon be using technology developed by Aira, a San Diego startup that links vision-impaired people with “visual interpreters” via smartphone and smart glasses, to help them navigate their environments.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

The University of California has ten campuses, of which half of them are in Southern California, including UC Irvine, UCLA, UC Riverside, UC San Diego, and UC Santa Barbara. fund investment capital venture ucsb ucla investor regent ucsd kitepharma finance' Image courtesy Chris Radcliff , via Flickr. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 2, 2013

AddToAny , the developer of WordPress and Drupal social sharing plug-ins which got its start at UC San Diego, is back as an independent firm, according to the company''s founder, Pat Diven II. Diven started AddToAny at UC San Diego when he was a student there, although he''s since moved to the Bay Area. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 13, 2015

San Diego-based GrollTex , a new startup spinning out of the University of California, San Diego, has scored a seed funding round. GrollTex was founded by UCSD graduate student Aliaksandr (Alex) Zaretski (pictured), who won the UC San Diego Entrepreneurship Challenge with the technology.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2017

For these reasons, fatty liver disease is often called a “silent disease,” says Ariel Feldstein, a gastroenterologist at the University of California San Diego. Feldstein has been studying the liver for nearly 20 years, and his research now forms the basis of a newly launched company called Jecure Therapeutics.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2012

The UC's channel is produced in San Diego at UCSD. The content will include 10-minute, mini-documentaries, 5-minute political commentaries and election analysis, and other features. The University of California joins the growing number of content providers specifically creating original content for YouTube. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 12, 2019

Two people associated with Southern California's high tech investment and startup industry have been named as part of the far reaching investigation into a college admissions scandal , which named Hollywood actresses, CEOs, coaches at USC, UCLA, and UCSD, as well as many others. According to a complaint filed by the U.S.

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AUGUST 30, 2016

UC San Diego has named Todd Hylton, a veteran tech industry manager and expert in neural-based processing technology, as executive director of its new Contextual Robotics Institute. Hylton’s appointment comes less than two months after UC San Diego named Henrik Christensen as director of the robotics institute.

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MARCH 30, 2011

CineForm will join its offices with GoPro's existing staff in San Diego. GoPro is based in Half Moon Bay, California, and was founded by UCSD graduate Nicholas Woodman. GoPro said that CineForm will become a division of the company, and continue to develop and support its products. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 26, 2010

San Diego-based SciVee , which operates an online Internet video site focused on advancing scientific knowledge, has inked a deal with Thomson Reuters, the firms said Monday. Financial details of the partnership were not disclosed. Financial details of the partnership were not disclosed.

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MARCH 12, 2014

Nick Woodman founded GoPro, which was inspired by his surfing days at the University of San Diego as a student , and is now worth around $1.3 Gilboa--who grew up in San Diego-- founded Warby Parker with classmates Neil Blumenthal, Andrew Hunt, and Jeffrey Raider after heading off to Wharton. Nick Woodman. David Gilboa.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

San Diego-based green energy technology developer Nuvve , which is developing vehicle-to-grid load balancing technology, says it has started participating in California's wholesale energy markets, via an effort with the University of California San Diego.

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MARCH 12, 2014

Nick Woodman founded GoPro, which was inspired by his surfing days at the University of San Diego as a student , and is now worth around $1.3 Gilboa--who grew up in San Diego-- founded Warby Parker with classmates Neil Blumenthal, Andrew Hunt, and Jeffrey Raider after heading off to Wharton. Nick Woodman. David Gilboa.

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